Library Lingo: T

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Brand name of the 3M detection system in use in MORGAN LIBRARY. See also BOOK DETECTION SYSTEM.

Composed of staff who regularly work in the EIC and Journal Room, the Tech Team meets twice each month to remain current in technical skills, enhance communication, and optimize service to the public.

Publications which report results of research or development, often conducted or sponsored by the U.S. Government. Considered to be "unpublished" in part because of their limited distribution, rapid obsolescence, and method of reproduction (multilith, mimeograph, xerox, MICROFICHE, etc.)

A report number assigned to a TECHNICAL REPORT.

One of the divisions of the Libraries, composed of the following services:  ACQUISITIONS, CATALOGING, and PRESERVATION.

See TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE.

Software program that allows a PC to remotely log into another system via INTERNET.

Elected by tenured members of the Libraries Faculty to advise the DEAN of Libraries on reappointment, award of tenure, and promotion of CSU librarians.

See COMPUTER TERMINAL.

Initially launched in 1987, the TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent. See also XML.

Text Encoding Initiative

See TENURED FACULTY COMMITTEE.

Listing of SUBJECT HEADINGS or terminology in a particular field of study or for a specific INDEX or DATABASE. Usually gives related terms, broader terms and narrower terms.

Written report of research by a master’s student.

A thin client is a small, network computer that has no hard drive and does not perform any local data processing. Thin clients are designed to use software applications (such as Word or Excel) that are installed on a server.

Distinguishing name of a work.

Usually a SERIAL publication, which has undergone a change in its title proper.

Record of a work in the CATALOG under the title.

Two or more SERIAL titles merge to form 1 (one) single title.

One of the preliminary pages of a book with the title, the author's (editor's, etc.) name and imprint.  The title page is usually used as the primary source of information for cataloging information. VERSO, or back of the title page usually carries the COPYRIGHT DATE.

One SERIAL title which splits into two or more different titles.`

Large private collection of rare books purchased from the Trianon Foundation in Colorado Springs.  It is now housed in UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES.

In shortening a word, to cut off at a given point as opposed to abbreviation. Used in computer searching to retrieve variants of a word or a list of items beginning with a phrase or string of characters.

Technical Services Heads. 

Technical Services Faculty.

Technical Services Supervisors.

International, public telecommunications network which connects a COMPUTER TERMINAL to the VENDOR whose DATABASE is being searched.